I use Lesson Planet for supplementary activities/projects every week. I'm currently researching for a current events rubric and found several options. It's great!
- Evergreen Park, IL
- 08-05-11
Tennis Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Tennis lesson plan ideas and activities
This lesson has students conduct a lab involving balancing equations. They determine the volume of a gas needed for the combustion of the air in a tennis ball can. They use data collected to produce a graph using Microsoft Excel a venn diagram, timeline, webpage, and other assessment tools.
7th graders study deck tennis. In this lesson on a sport, 7th graders examine how to toss and catch the rubber ring similar to tossing a Frisbee.
Students use an alternative way to practice accuracy of their tennis strokes by playing a game similar to baseball in which the purpose is to hit the ball away from your opponents, but within the lines.
Students practice proper positioning of players on a tennis court and scoring.
This lesson has students design a proposal for a low-cost tennis ball launcher that includes: a diagram of the design for a model that is constructed in class, step-by-step operating instuctions, determination of the force constant, and calculations of launch speed and extension of tubing.
In this lesson students explore scoring and positioning of players on a tennis court during a game of tennis
Students collect and analyze data. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students collect and record data regarding a bouncing tennis ball. Students graph data as they investigate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables
Students collect and record data using the real-world situation of a bouncing tennis ball. They use the data collected to formulate the relationship between the dependent and independent variable in their experiment.
Students determine whether the height of a tennis ball tube or the distance around the tube is greater, or whether they are the same. Using the formula for the circumference and diameter of a sphere, they discuss the word problem, and in small groups invent and carry out a method for solving the problem.
This lesson has students play a game which is a combination between Tennis and Volleyball. They practice volleying the ball and working together in teams.
